Medical News

(Kanazawa University) Kanazawa University researchers reported that the SUCLA2 gene is frequently involved in the deletion of the tumor suppressor gene RB1 in advanced prostate cancer. RB1 deletion makes cells resistant ...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Anand K. Devaiah, MD, associate professor of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), was invited to give this year's John Conley, MD, Le...

(Boston University School of Medicine) Erika Wolf, PhD, clinical research psychologist for the National Center for PTSD at the VA Boston Healthcare System and associate professor of psychiatry at Boston University School...

(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) The National Academy of Medicine's (NAM) virtual 50th Annual Meeting will include a scientific symposium on Monday, Oct. 19 -- Confronting Urgent Threats to Hum...

(Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc.) Addressing concurrent co-morbidities: we are dealing more with a 'syndemic.'

(Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging) A new intraoperative imaging technique, Cerenkov luminescence imaging (CLI), can accurately assess surgical margins during radical prostatectomy, according to a first-i...

(Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center) Dartmouth and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center will serve as one of the lead institutions for a new multi-center clinical trial of anti-VISTA, now open and recruiting f...

(Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science) The brain is assumed to exert homeostatic functions to always keep the cellular energy status constant, this has not been proven. Researchers at Tokyo Metropolitan Instit...

(Purdue University) The COVID-19 pandemic has created supply chain gaps in critical drug products, especially those needed for the most critical patients in intensive care units across the country. DARPA (Defense Advance...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) A pay-for performance program that offers enhanced reimbursement to oncology practices for prescribing high-quality, evidence-based cancer drugs increased use of these drug...

(Faculty of Science - University of Copenhagen) A novel study shows that facemask use does not affect indicators of cognitive performance when the wearers are resting or performing moderate physical work in hot environme...

(Wiley) An analysis of relevant studies published to date has identified certain risk factors associated with suicidal behavior in adolescents. The analysis also revealed certain protective factors that may reduce the li...

(Cardiff University) A mathematician from Cardiff University has developed a new method for processing large volumes of COVID-19 tests which he believes could lead to significantly more tests being performed at once and ...

(The Gerontological Society of America) The Gerontological Society of America's highly cited, peer-reviewed journals are continuing to publish scientific articles on COVID-19. The following were published between Septemb...

(University of Birmingham) Researchers based at the University of Birmingham are starting a ground-breaking maternal health trial across 80 hospitals in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Sri Lanka.

(BfR Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) Fish should be a regular component of our diets. It is an important source of biologically high-quality and easily digestible protein, minerals and vitamins. However, raw, smok...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Working with fish, birds and mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report new evidence that some animals' natural capacity to regrow neurons is not missing, but is instead inactivated in mamma...

(The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo) A research group at The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo (IMSUT) showed that gorilla APOBEC3G potentially plays a role in inhibiting SIVcpz...

(University of Toledo) Scientists at The University of Toledo previously discovered naturally occurring Lake Erie bacteria can destroy toxins released during harmful algal blooms. With support from NOAA, UToledo will use...

(Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center) A study conducted at Wake Forest Baptist Health shows that on-scene use of a new protocol and advanced diagnostic equipment can help paramedics better identify patients at high risk f...

(Medical University of South Carolina) With more than $1.5 million in funding from the National Cancer Institute, MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers discovered a new biomarker, plasmacytoid dendritic cells expressin...

(National Research Council of Science & Technology) Ganoderma lucidum, known as Yeongji mushroom in Korea, has long been used medicinally in China, Japan and Korea. Ganoderic acid, an active ingredient found in the mushr...